German Black Walnut Balls Recipes

WALNUT BALLS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
• Cream the sugar and butter. Add flour, nuts, salt and vanilla. Mix well. Batter will be very crumbly.
• Shape into 1 inch balls. Bake for 15 minutes, remove from oven and allow to cool for 3 minutes. Roll in super fine sugar. When cool, roll again, if desired.

FAVORITE BLACK WALNUT COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter, white sugar, and brown sugar. Add eggs and beat until smooth. Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt. Stir dry ingredients into the creamed mixture until well blended. Stir in walnuts last. Shape dough into logs about 2 inches in diameter, wrap them in wax paper, and refrigerate until firm.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Slice dough logs into 1/2 inch slices, and place on baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes. Mmmm nuttylicious!

AUTHENTIC GERMAN BLACK BREAD (SCHWARZBROT)

Steps:

• Combine the water, sourdough starter, and one half of the cracked rye. Mixture will be soupy. Cover and allow to set at about 70° F for 8 to 10 hours.
• After 8 to 10 hours, the mixture will have absorbed water and be similar in consistency to porridge. Save 1 cup of this mixture for the next batch of bread, then add salt and the rest of the cracked rye.
• Allow the dough to ferment at about 70° F for 4 more hours. At the end of this time, work and squeeze the dough with your hands to develop its cohesiveness. The dough is nothing like wheat bread dough. It is very moist and slippery and cannot be kneaded. When a handful is squeezed, it will squirt out between your fingers.
• After working the dough for several minutes, pack it into bread forms, preferably glass. There's not much rising that goes on and too much air space in the bread would be detrimental to the texture. The moistness and acidity of the dough and the long baking time will strongly rust steel pans and etch aluminum ones. Pack the dough into the pan tightly and smooth the top with a spatula. Lay a piece of parchment paper over the top of the form and then cover tightly with aluminum foil. The aluminum foil keeps the bread from drying out and the parchment paper keeps the aluminum foil from dissolving into the bread. Bake at 225° F for 3½ hours.
• Turn the oven off but allow the bread to remain inside for a couple more hours. Carefully remove the bread from the pans and place on a rack to cool and dry. Ideally, you should wait a day or two until the bread becomes firmer before attempting to slice it.

BLACK WALNUT COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine dry ingredients and whisk together well.
• Add nuts and toss to coat. Set aside.
• Cream butter or margerine, add sugar and beat until very fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.
• Add vanilla.
• Alternate milk and flour mixture in thirds, beating just until combined.
• Cover and refrigerate 1 hour.
• Drop by tablespoon onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment, leaving at least 2" between.
• Bake at 375' for 10-12 minutes or until golden.

GREEK HONEY WALNUT BALLS

Steps:

• Combine honey, 1/4 cup sugar, 1/4 cup orange juice, cinnamon stick and whole cloves in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and boil gently for 5 minutes, uncovered. Strain syrup, discarding spices. Remove 1/4 cup syrup. Set aside remaining syrup.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Combine ground walnuts and orange peel in a medium bowl. Stir in 1/4 cup syrup; set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, beat butter for 30 seconds or until softened. Add half the flour. Add remaining 1/2 cup sugar, remaining 1/4 cup orange juice, brandy, baking powder, baking soda, ground cinnamon, ground cloves and ground nutmeg. Beat until well blended. Beat or stir in remaining flour.
• Form dough into 1-1/4" balls. Using finger, press hole in center of ball of dough. Place about 1/2 teaspoon ground nut filling in hole. Bring dough up around filling, enclosing completely. Place seam side down on greased baking sheet. With knife, crisscross top, forming an "x," scoring surface only. Repeat with remaining dough and filling.
• Bake at 350 F for 18 to 20 minutes, or until set.
• Remove from oven and let stand on baking sheet 1 minute.
• Rewarm reserved syrup gently over low heat. Brush tops of hot cookies with warm syrup, or dip tops into syrup. Sprinkle with finely chopped walnuts. Place on wire rack to cool completely.

MARZIPANKUGELN - GERMAN MARZIPAN BALLS

Steps:

• Take the marzipan paste (douse with a little rum if you wish) and form into small balls; roll in cocoa powder.
• Done.
• A very nice gift for nice neighbors, your friendly postman -- or for yourself.

WALNUT BALLS

Steps:

• Cream butter, sugar, and vanilla until fluffy.
• Sift flour and salt together; add to creamed mixture.
• Mix well; stir in walnuts.
• Shape dough into walnut-sized balls.
• Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 375 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes.
• Remove from cookie sheet with spatula.
• When still warm but cool enough to handle, roll in powdered sugar.

GERMAN BLACK WALNUT BALLS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Cream butter, sugar, salt, & vanilla till fluffy.
• Stir in flour.
• Add brandy (or drink it) & chopped nuts and mix well.
• Shape into 3/4" balls using 1/2 tablespoon dough per cookie and roll in additional powdered sugar before placing on cookie sheet.
• Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 20 minutes.